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  title info:
    title: Threats to Global Water Security
  title info:
    title: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Natural Disasters and Water Security: Risk Assessment, Emergency Response and Environmental Management, Yerevan, Armenia, 18-22 October 2007
  name:
    name part: Jones, J. Anthony A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Vardanian, Trahel G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hakopian, Christina.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 400 p. online resource.
  abstract: The UN designated the decade 2005–2015 as the International Decade for Action – Water for Life. The move was initiated at the third World Water Forum in Kyoto, 2003, and it could prove the most significant and effective outcome of the triennial series of World Water For a yet. Its major aims are: (1) to promote efforts to fulfil recent international commitments, especially in the Millennium Goals, (2) to advance towards a truly integrated, int- national approach to sustainable water management, and (3) to put special emphasis on the role of women in these efforts. Even so, it faces tremendous and, as I write, increasing obstacles. The intense season of hurricanes and tropical storms in 2008 illustrated yet again not only the power of nature, but also the vulnerability of the poorer nations, like Haiti and Jamaica. New Orleans and Texas fared better, not because of the efforts of the International Decade for Natural Disasters (1990–2000) to increase preparedness, but more because the USA had learnt from its own experiences in Hurricane Katrina. The biggest obstacle of all is the burgeoning world population. It took off last century, but it is predicted to reach unimaginable heights this century: at least 10 billion by 2050, maybe 20 billion by 2100. Governments are powerless to halt it, even the Chinese. Achieving water security globally against this backdrop will be a Herculean task.
  table of contents: Overview: The Major Issues -- Threats to Global Water Security: Population Growth, Terrorism, Climate Change, or Commercialisation? -- Less is More: Approaching Water Security and Sustainability from the Demand Side -- Water Security of Nations: How International Trade Affects National Water Scarcity and Dependency -- Reducing the Risk: Drought Mitigation and the Economy of Irrigation -- Working Group I: Risk Assessment and Water Governance -- Water Quality and Terrorism -- Drinking Water Security in Crisis Situations From a Medical Perspective -- Biosensors In a System of Instrumental Tools to Prevent Effects of Bioterrorism and Automotive Control of Water Process Purification -- A High Sensitivity Nuclear Method for Real-Time Detection of Elements and Compounds in Drinking Water and Soil -- Natural Disasters and Surface and Subsurface Water Pollution Risk Assessment for Some Regions of Georgia -- Storm Surges on the Southern Coast of Gulf of Riga: Case Study of the Lielupe River -- Ground Water Vulnerability Assessment of the Aparan Aquifer, Republic of Armenia, and Its Representation in A 3-D Model -- Wastewater Modeling to Reduce Disaster Risk From Groundwater Contamination -- Survival in Groundwater and Ft—ir Characterization of Some Pathogenic and Indicator Bacteria -- Working Group II: The Threat from Armed Conflict and Terrorism -- Managing Extreme Events and Climate Change -- Climate Change, Glacier Retreat, and Water Availability in the Caucasus Region -- Risk Management and Mitigation in Highly Urbanized River Basins -- Spatial Data Integration for Emergency Services of Flood Management -- The Use of Remote Sensing and Gis Techniques in Flood Monitoring and Damage Assessment: A Study Case in Romania -- Flooding in Afghanistan: A Crisis -- Human Factors in the Floods of Romania -- Development of Dangerous Geodynamic Processes in the South Caucasus and the Problem of Mitigating Their Consequences -- Threats in the Tienshan-Pamir Region of Kyrgyzstan -- Long…
  note: edited by J. Anthony A. Jones, Trahel G. Vardanian, Christina Hakopian.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Quality control
  subject:
    topic: Reliability
  subject:
    topic: Industrial safety
  subject:
    topic: Water pollution
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
  subject:
    topic: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
  classification: TD419-428
  classification: 363.7394
  classification: 363.73946
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
  identifier: 9789048123445
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2344-5
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204161416.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-2344-5